We haunt every medium we make.

February 26, 2014

Apparent Glass-bashing incident

[T]wo women confronted her. Then, a man ripped the Google Glass off of her face.

This might be the prototype for Glass-bashing.

The victim's reaction via social media:

“OMG so you’ll never believe this but… I got verbally and physically assaulted and robbed last night in the city, had things thrown at me because of some *** Google Glass haters …” Slocum wrote on her Facebook page.

More from other people:

[W]itnesses said some people inside the bar got upset about the possibility of being recorded by the glasses. Brian Lester said he watched as a man insulted Slocum, then a man accompanying her retaliated with his fists.

“The crowd was jeering as any last call crowd would do with a fight outside of a bar,” Lester said. “She was running around very excited … and people were telling her, ‘you’re being an *** take those glasses off.”

Threatened by an angry mob - classic Gothic trope.

Note this defensive observation from a participant, about the bar: "it’s not really Google Glass country.” Let's see if we start breaking down into pro- and anti-Glass factions.